Grim news, but not unexpected. Vaccines are not going to save us—at least not in the near future. We need to figure out how to live with the virus without losing our minds.https://twitter.com/joshnathankazis/status/1353808841931108353 …
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Replying to @lisang
The article doesn't make sense, though. Merck, yeah, that sucks but the Moderna news isn't grim whatsoever and in reality, the vaccines we do have are unexpectedly huge home runs.
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His (negative) focus is on the difficulties of the rollout. That too many improve but at this stage, it's a huge stumbling block in spite of the relatively good news around Moderna, so I do feel like it's quite warranted even if having working vaccines is great.
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Maybe we are feeling this more here in Canada where .... at least in Quebec vaccine rollout has really not happened. We are feeling the crunch and as new variants pop up the risk feels very real.
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Replying to @BiellaColeman @zeynep
Yes. Very grim feeling around here these days. The light at the end of the tunnel is getting dimmer.
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Replying to @lisang @BiellaColeman
Yeah, but that's the opposite of reality. Tunnel difficult, light at the end keeps getting brighter and better.
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Let's see. Again, the piece (not headline) emphasizes the difficulty of administering a booster on top of needing 2 shots. Then if you combine this news with the fact that different variants may pose a problem for vaccines, it's hard to feel cheery.
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Replying to @BiellaColeman @lisang
Yeah, people will not feel cheered up if one of the best days in a while is headlined as "grim morning". That's my point. I agree, the current moment is difficult but framing excellent good news plus some minor bad news as "grim" is partly why people feel so despondent.
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I feel despondent for other reasons: notably that Canada has no vaccine and much of the population won't be vaccinated until summer if we are lucky and in the interim, a very contagious variant will likely spread havoc here.
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Agree on all that. But yesterday was good news. Ramping up the vaccine supply and distributing remains priority, as it should, and encouraging despair about vaccines when the news is, in reality, great doesn't help.
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The piece is about distribution. It's 2 bad the headlines suck and 2 many people just read headlines and agree it's a huge problem. The content in the piece was on point. If we don't' figure out distribution soon, it can also lead to variants that evade our vaccines.
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Replying to @BiellaColeman @zeynep
Very important point about the headline and dek.
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